Apparently short nails are a fashion statement now as opposed to a thing that just happens because you work with your hands too much and your thyroid is underactive - uh, I mean they're totally short because I AM A CONFIDENT WOMAN. But I've always envied women with naturally long nails, and enjoy looking at other people's professionally manicured nails.

Jean jackets are pretty versatile. What would you wear with it?

Hope this is allowed here?

Here's a really cool article in The Guardian today on Shirley Manson from the band Garbage (my favourite band, and Shirl is an absolute goddess!)

She talks about being a music icon, misogyny and hip replacements..... and they have a new album out!!

I've always loved her no bullshit down to earth approach to life 🤘

Also, it's really weird, but nice having an icon from my youth talking about things like hip replacements, I still think of her (and myself) as being in our 20's and indestructible, when we're now both older, peri and post menopausal, and still rocking out

I'm hoping they tour, I missed the last one

Anyone else her love Shirley and Garbage? Or PJ Harvey, Bjork, Tori?

What's something you want to achieve this week?

It's something we need to do sometimes to stay safe. What are things you've said?

This is a really fun way of narrowing down your personal style. Designed by stylist Ellie-Jean Royden, the system helps you "define 3 core elements of your personal style, fuse them with each other and your body type with every outfit you wear."

There's a quiz on her website. If seeing example outfits is more helpful for you than a theoretical quiz (it was for me), don't miss these pinterest boards.

So what are your style roots?

Iron kids uniform? Batch cook? Psych yourself up? And are you doing this alone?

Is it food? A person? An activity? Tell us here!

Got your friend through a rough time? Raising your child well? Mentored someone at work? We wanna know!

It's often a small thing that shows it... what have you noticed?

Someone writes a comment with a sentence that starts the story. Another person replies to that with the next sentence and so on. Let's see how many literary geniuses we have!

I'm very alt in dress and make up, could anyone with a different style assist with doing fashion and make up posts? I'd also like someone that could contribute posts about BAME make up etc so that we're more inclusive.

Message or comment here! You'd have free reign to get creative with what posts you wanted.

Could be serious, could be fun. All of us know really useful and interesting stuff, what would you like other women to know?

Successfully helped your child understand their homework? Found the perfect shade hair dye? Good result at work? Whatever it is, we want to know!

Thanks so much for all the responses! I'm not posting all the results because it can ID people, but I'll talk about the big points now.

New rule, no governmental politics. Multiple people said they really want to escape the stress of it all. Talking about female politicians being victimised or similar is fine, but nothing just politics. I recommend !Feminism@beehaw.org or maybe !Witchesvspatriarchy@lemmy.ca for women's politics.

A few people raised they don't like the fashion posts, however overall people did like that. They're also easy to scroll past so they'll continue.

People definitely want feminism. Parents, loved your comments about wanting more parenting and thatll be included more... I don't have kids, so please direct me or post yourself as I don't want to steal mom's voices.

Views on allowing men were mixed, but overall people wanted it female only.

Not wanting wonderwoman was raised. Would any of our talented artists like to design a non WW userpic and banner? I love the one we have but the important thing is how everyone here feels.

Thanks for helping us grow!

We've all got different styles so I think we'll get a great range of ideas! Share them here!

Hey all, today is the last day for our our survey on what you want the community to be like. I've started collating the responses and I'll have a post covering it tomorrow. Really appreciated everyone's input so far!

It's Monday, usually a difficult day and April is Stress Awareness Month. How do you manage work related stress?

Want to natter without doing a full thread? Do it here!